Chapter 1419 - Calm Before the Storm
Seventh-stage half-immortals weren’t just any cultivators.
Forces with seventh-stage half-immortals overseeing them were considered top-tier among the numerous forces in the entire Immortal Conferral Ancient Realm, well above mid-tier forces like the Hua Alliance or even the Apex Mystic Alliance.
In the ancient realm, half-immortals were not rare, but those at the seventh stage? That was a different story. To advance from the sixth stage to the seventh stage, one had to convert sixty to seventy percent of their law power. It sounded simple on paper; in reality, it was brutal.
The realm itself was never meant to exist. Back in the ancient days, there was no such thing as “half-immortal.”
It only appeared after a cataclysmic war shattered the laws of heaven and earth, weakening the Heavenly Dao. With the laws fragmented and the Dao barely holding up, even forming an immortal platform became ten times harder than before.
War after war only made things worse. Laws broke down further, the Dao weakened, and cultivation slowed to a crawl. That also resulted in the present status quo, where becoming an Immortal Emperor was near-impossible; aiming to become a Sage seemed laughable
So, immortals improvised. They began converting true primeval into law power at the peak of the Void Immortal realm, sharpening their grasp of the laws in hopes of boosting their odds when it came time to cast their immortal platform. That “in-between” state became the half-immortal realm.
However, half-immortals still hadn’t formed their immortal platforms, so their flesh, body, soul, and bloodline hadn’t endured the baptism of the immortal tribulation, which meant no true metamorphosis of their life essence. Without that, their physiques simply couldn’t handle full law power. In short, they were stuck in transition—powerful, but never quite complete.
For most cultivators, the sixth-stage half-immortal realm was the ceiling. If they went beyond it, their physiques couldn’t handle the surge of law power, leading to death by explosion.
However, many prodigies, those with stronger physiques and bloodlines, could break through this shackle and surpass the sixth-stage half-immortal realm. That’s why the jump from sixth to seventh stage wasn’t just another step; it was a turning point, a real qualitative leap.